I have posted this draft on SSRN, which I will be presenting at an APSA panel on “The Future of Voting Rights After the Shelby County Case.” Here is the abstract: Chief Justice Roberts’ majority opinion in Shelby County… Continue reading

Dallas Morning News: The Supreme Court’s twin rulings on affirmative action and voting rights show a distinct if incomplete shift on matters of race. The justices weren’t ready to fully cast aside time-worn tools used to redress simmering racial… Continue reading

At the APSA meeting in Chicago on Aug. 29 at 2 pm, the Law and Political Process study group will have the following panel: Law and Political Process Study Group Panel 1   The Future of the Voting Rights Act After… Continue reading

TPM reports.

Adam Serwer on bail-in.

Travis Crum, who wrote an excellent student note on Section 3 bail in under the Voting Rights Act, has written this guest post: An Effects-Test Pocket Trigger Travis Crum  Following Shelby County v. Holder, civil rights advocates are searching for… Continue reading

TIME: “Less than a week after the Supreme Court watered down the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a handful of states seemed poised to roll back the protections afforded to minorities by the 48-year-old law.”

Ilya Shapiro:  The casual observer of the Supreme Court must have been quite confused last week. First, the Court punted on an affirmative action case, making it harder to use race in college admissions decisions without prohibiting the practice altogether.… Continue reading